Here is a little tip my brother taught me. If you need to cool down a bottle of gin and you don’t have a lot of time (say an hour or so) don’t panic, you can do the following:

Take some kitchen paper (one or two sheets).

Run them under the tap then wrap them around the bottle. Put it in the freezer for an hour. It should cool down a lot faster than normal.

Thus allowing you to enjoy a cold martini in record time. Phew!

As an added, slightly unorthodox benefit, you can peel off the frozen kitchen roll and use it as a soothing face mask. Just a suggestion.